After speaking with his parents, Carlos Gomez expressed some regret for Sunday afternoon's brawl between the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Gomez told his parents "I don't mean to do that, but things happen and they don't mean to do that, but things happen in the game.

"We know it's not good for baseball," he recalled telling his parents. "But when you have 50 men outside, something can happen."

Gomez, who was suspended last year after a similar brawl with the Atlanta Braves, repeatedly said he was ready to put the incident in the past.

"People say the worst stuff about things I've been doing for a long time," he said. "It's not like disrespect. It's not like I show people up. I don't get sensitive when they strike me out. I don't say, 'Hey, why you throw me 98? Why you throw me a slider in the dirt? Why you throw me a fastball in the neck?' This is baseball."